François R. Velde @fvelde.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The birth of coinage - c650BC, five consecutive denominations (each half of the one on the left). Lydian coins, 55% gold and 45% silver. The one on the right weighs 0.3g and could probably buy a few sheep. Not quite small change… 092
François R. Velde @fvelde.bsky.social · 02/01/2025El archivo general de Simancas has joined the 21st c.! Now we can take pictures from our seats without limit 020
François R. Velde @fvelde.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It’s Saturday Oct 16, 1582 and everyone in Naples is shopping for a new calendar (calendario novamente stampato). The Pope thought he could impose a worldwide copyright for the inventor, but the Catholic King told his viceroy to ignore this infringement on his jurisdiction. 030
François R. Velde @fvelde.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Breakthrough in payments technology: a Swedish coin weighing 19kg (1648) and a note of same value (1666). 070
François R. Velde @fvelde.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Banco de la Nación Argentina: register of illiterate clients (with fingerprints), c1900-02. Several Turks, one Arab, one German. 060
